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Hycsos

Hycsos is the alternative form of Hyksos.

Meaning of Hyksos

Noun

Hyksos pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A mixed group of Asiatic people from Western Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt and initiating the Second Intermediate Period.
    • But in the New Kingdom, after the invasion of the Hyksos in their horse-drawn chariots, the horse became a more powerful image.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 238

Questions about Hycsos

What is Hycsos the alternative form of?
Hycsos is the alternative form of Hyksos.

Words near Hycsos in the dictionary

  1. hycean
  2. Hyche
  3. Hyches
  4. hyclate
  5. hyclates
  6. Hycsos
  7. hyd
  8. hyd.
  9. hydage
  10. hydages
  11. hydantocidin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hycsos (page history and authors); Hyksos (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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